I had the first Gunship game on the C64. It would take 200 on the tape counter to get to the main menu on side A !!!.. and then i had to turn the tape to side B and load for another 50 to start mission 1 !!!..

Then after you would finish a mission, you had to load 200 again!!!!!!! and then 50 again to get mission 2. Same for mission 3, 4.. etc. And then it would occasionally crash!!!! #$#@$#%@

I had the first Gunship game on the C64. It would take 200 on the tape counter to get to the main menu on side A !!!.. and then i had to turn the tape to side B and load for another 50 to start mission 1 !!!..

Then after you would finish a mission, you had to load 200 again!!!!!!! and then 50 again to get mission 2. Same for mission 3, 4.. etc. And then it would occasionally crash!!!! #$#@$#%@

LOL

That's what you get for having the read-head on the tapedrive out of alignment

That's what you get for having the read-head on the tapedrive out of alignment

Oh that was another thing that used to kill me with the tape drive!.. Constantly realigning the head!!. One tiny movement of the screw could mean the game would load, and then sometimes no matter HOW MANY times you tried to get it working, it would still ALWAYS crash!.

And then there were some games like Driller or The Last Ninja that loaded every single time no matter how the head was aligned!!.. Arrrghhh..